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Personal Details of William Quelch

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Buried:	25/02/1892

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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Only three of the five burial register books still exist as far as we know and these are held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

Cemetery accounts

This information is taken from the accounts ledgers of the Newbury Cemetery Company that originally ran and maintained the cemetery.
The Ledgers are held at the Berkshire Records Office.

Name at death	William Quelch
Date of burial	25/02/1892
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend E J Gardner
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 064
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for William Quelch
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Workhouse Records

This information was taken from the Newbury Workhouse records currently held at the Berkshire Record Office.

Name:	William Quelch
Date of death:	21 February 1892
Age at death:	80
Parish from which they were admitted to the workhouse:	Brimpton
Where buried:	Newbury Cemetery
Workhouse Master:	William Hawkes
Comments:

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Deaths - William Quelch

Source:	NWN
Article date:	25/02/1892
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 25^th February 1892 QUELCH – February, 21, at the Workhouse, Newbury, William Quelch, late of Brimpton, aged 80
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about William Quelch.

William Quelch c1814-1892

William Quelch

c1814-1892

William was baptised on the 18^th September 1814 at St Peter, Brimpton, Berkshire, the son of Thomas and Ann Quelch (nee Stroud) who were married on the 22^nd October 1806 in Aldermaston Berkshire.

His mother Ann was born c1784, she died aged 39 in 1825 and was buried on the 16^th June at St Peter, Brimpton.

His father Thomas was born c1777. He died aged 80 in 1847 and was buried on the 18^th November at St Nicolas, Wasing.

William’s siblings were (all baptised in Brimpton):

Mary 18/10/1810 John 15/11/1812 Sarah 5/5/1816 Elizabeth 10/5/1818 George 7/5/1820 Jane 10/2/1822 Thomas 14/12/1823

William’s father remarried on the 13^th December 1826 at St Nicolas Wasing. His 2^nd wife was Mary Mossdell. The had a daughter Eliza who was baptised on the 25^th February 1827 in Wasing.

The 1841 census records William (25) as an Agricultural Labourer living with his father Thomas (60), an Agricultural Labourer, his step-mother Mary (50), his sister Jane (15) and his half-sister Eliza (14)

The 1851 census records William (35) as a Farm Servant, lodging in Wasing

The 1881 census records him aged 66, living at 2 Bridge Cottages, Woolhampton, with his married sister Sarah Bidmead (64), her husband George Bidmead (56) and a niece, Mary A Quelch (11).

By 1891 William (79), a General Labourer was an inmate in the Newbury Workhouse.

He died aged 80 on the 21^st February 1892 in the Newbury Workhouse and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25^th February.

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